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Lesson plans are like a teacher's road-map, guiding him through a class, and the strategies that he will use in order to help his students learn a particular aspect of a curriculum. In the past lesson plans were often hand-written notes, stored in binders, xeroxed and share shared among teachers within a school. With the rise of the internet and the discovery that people will pay to purchase lesson plans, the commodification of the lesson plan has begun. | | | | |
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Good teachers have always used lesson plans in order to help their students achieve the maximum possible amount of learning in a small amount of time. Though variations in pedagogy (and skill, personal preference, experience, time, etc.) lead to very different plans, almost all teachers write something down in preparation for the classes that they teach. New websites like Teachers Pay Teachersfacilitate the process of purchasing and selling lesson plans by teachers. As on craigslist, users may post a lesson plan and ask for a particular price from purchasers; unlike on Craiglist, the same lesson plan may be purchased and downloaded many times, allowing the poster to earn money from the sale of the lesson plan to multiple people. The concept of paying for educational materials online is not new. Websites like Edhelper.com have long offered worksheets, created by employees of edhelper, and accessible to teachers through an annual subscription fee. However, now that teachers have started selling lesson plans that they created for use in their public school classrooms, a debatedebate has arisen as to who owns the plans. | | | | |
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If teachers can simply purchase lesson plans, it means that they will spend less time creating the basic framework of each day's lesson. They will spend less time creating worksheets used to reinforce students skills and knowledge. This may be a good thing: some teachers will use the extra time to refine the purchased lesson plans, creating plans for differentiated instruction for based on the different needs and strengths of individual students in their classes. | | | | |
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Currently, lesson planning, providing in-classroom instruction and grading papers (among other activities) are all part of a teacher's job. It is generally at the teacher's discretion, at least in Public Schools, to decide how much time he will spend getting his work down beyond those hours that he is required to be in the classroom teaching. For many teachers, the day stretches far beyond 3PM dismissal, with grading, planning and outreach to parents taking up hours each day. | | | | |
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